Cotton-scraper attachment.



PATENTBD APR. l0, 1906.

G. 0. DYE. COTTON SURAPER ATTACHMENT.

LPPLIOTIO FILED JUNE 27. 1905.

l., M@ ma im m a UNITED STATES PATENT voEEioE. CHARLES O. DYE, OF MOGRORY, ARKANSAS.

COTTON-SCRAPER ATTACHMENT.

J/YO. B1 7,696. L

Specication of Letters IPatent.

Application led June 27, 1905.A Serial No. 267.252.

ratented April 10, 1806.

Tf'v @ZL whqm it may 00h/Germ cave and has the general shape of a diamond, Be it known that I, CHARLES O. DYE, a the lower edge of which is Shar ened so as to r/zitizen of the United States, residin at Mcreadily cut into the earth. t is provided Y (Story, in the county of Woodru an State of with two openings 10, through which bolts Il 6o 5 JArkansas, have invented certain new and are passed to secure it to the bar 3, -said bolts l useful Improvements in Cotton-Scraper Atbeing adapted to slide in the transverse slots tachments, of which the following is avspeci- 9 in order to give a lateral adjustment to the cation. scraper-blade, as has been heretofore men- This invention relates to agricultural imtioned. In its exact formation the bar 3 is 65 f n plements, and more particularly to an improvided below the bottom l with a ortion proved cotton-scraper attachment for plows ent laterally and offset approximate y at an j or cultivators. angle of forty-live degrees, and below said olil It consists, essentially, of a sera er-blade set portion the bar 3 is again bent longitudiattached to a bar which passes .t ough a nally, so that its lower end will lie in a plane 7c 15 mortise in the plow-beam. parallel with the upper attached portion of It; has for its obiect to roduce a device of thebar, said lower ortion being, furthermore; this character which can e readily attached twisted about its lldngitudinal axis, so that it or detached, which permits of both lateral will lie in a plane at about an angle of fortyand vertical adjustment, and which is very five degrees with respect to the plane of the 75 zo sim le and durableinconstruction. upper portion of the bar. lt will thus be or a full description ofthe invention and seen that the bar 3 comprises three portions the merits thereof and also to acquire a arranged relativel at angles to each other, knowledge of the details of construction of the the upper portion being secured to the beam, means for effecting the result reference is to the intermediate portion being offset at an 8o 25 be had to the following description and acangle of forty-five degrees thereroni,and the eompanying drawings, 1n Whichiowermost portion being returned to the gen- Fi re 1 1s -a side view of a plow having eral lon itudinal plane of the uppermost or- Iny evice attached thereto. Fig. 2 is aront tion an being twisted about its iongitu inal view of the scraper attachment. Fig. 3 is a axis, as shown. It is in this lowerrnost axi- 8 5 3o side view of the scraper attachment. Fig. 4 ally-twisted portion that the slots 9 are lois a detail perspective view of the various cated. B this construction the scraper-v parts. blade 7 is eld in proper offset osition at the Corresponding and like arts are referred proper angle with respect to t eshovellow to in the foll'own description and indicated which follows it. As thus constructs the 9o 3 5 in all the views o the drawings by the same device is ada ted for scra ing corn and cotreference characters. ton rows. e scraper-b ade cuts into the The numeral 1 designates the beam of a surface of the earth and tends to throw the shovel-plow of the usual construction. This dirt back from the row, while the shovel-plow beam is provided with a mortise 2 for the reserves to loosen the thoroughly-scraped sur- 9 5 4o ce tion of a bar 3, which is verticali adjustface. By the em loyment of this device the abile therein and is held in the desire osltionv two operations o scraping and cultivation by means of a Wedge 4. Immediate y below are carried on simultaneously, and there is the beam 1 the bar 3 is bent forward at 5, so consequently a great saving of time and laas to give the proper slant to the sera erbor. roo 45 blade. The bar is then bent outwar to While l have illustrated and described my form an offset 6, so that the scraper-blade 7 invention as attached to a shovellow, it will may be given the roper alinement with rebe obvious that it can with equa facility be spect to the shove -plow or other im lement used in conjunction with any similar implewhich may be employed. A twist 8 1s given ment. x05 5o to the barimmediately before it is bent down- Havin thus described the invention, what ward and serves to give the pro er angle to is claime as new is-- the blade, so that it will readily ee itself of In a cotton-scraper attachment for plows, dirt and grass. The lower portion of the bar a blade-supporting bar having its u per end is provided with two transverse slots 9,which secured in a mortise in the plow-Ilieam in 11o 5 5 permit of a lateral adjustment of the scraperalinement with the beam and projecting belade 7. This scraper-blade is slightly conlow the latter the said bar being bent for- Wardly in a plane in alinement With the attached ortion thereof Whereb to give the proper s anting to the scraper-b ade, and said ar being provided below the slanted portion 5 with an intermediate portion offset therefrom at an angle of forty-live degrees and with the lowermost portion returned to the plane of the upper attached portion and the slanting portion, but twisted about its longi- Io tudinal axis at an angle o fort -ve degrees whereby to ive the proper ang e to the blade so that 'it wi 1 readily free itself from the soil, said lowermost portion being provided with two transversely-extending elongated slots one above the other, and a scraper-blade pro- I 5 vided with bolts mounted in said slots so as to secure the bladein both laterally and axially adjustable position with res eet to the lowermost twisted portion of the ar.

In testimony'whereof I aflix my signatufre 2c in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES O. DYE. [L 5.] 

